Volunteers assemble 110 trauma kits for central Indiana police

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A group of volunteers gathered inside the Indianapolis lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police on Monday afternoon to learn about and help create trauma kits.

The life-saving kits are used to help preserve life in incidents where there is major blood loss or when CPR needs to be applied. A $10,000 grant from the Rotary of Indianapolis helped get 110 trauma kits, which will go to officers in Morgan County, the Lawrence Police Department and other departments in need of the kits. 

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department already has the kits, thanks to donated funds. The kits are credited with preserving the life of IMPD Officer Jason Fishburn. Back in 2008, Fishburn was shot as he chased a murder suspect. While officers waited for medics to arrive, a trauma kit helped stablize Fishburn.

In January, an IMPD officer used a trauma kit on one of five people shot at a bar, and the man survived. 

The goal is to ensure that police departments surrounding Marion County will have the kits.

Eventually, the FOP would like to place the trauma kits in large public venues, and even in schools.